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Yahoo Inc said it will join Google Inc to create a secure email system by next year that could make it nearly impossible for hackers or government officials to read users' messages, The Wall Street Journal reported. The move comes as large technology companies unite to beef up their defenses against government intrusion and hacking, most notably after Edward Snowden exposed last year the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs. Google, Microsoft and Facebook Inc moved to encrypt internal traffic after revelations by Snowden that the spy agency hacked into their connections overseas. The companies have also smaller adjustments that together make sweeping collection...

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Yahoo Inc said it will join Google Inc to create a secure email system by next year that could make it nearly impossible for hackers or government officials to read users' messages, The Wall Street Journal reported.The move comes as large technology...

- Job seekers looking for entry-level positions and career changes will have an opportunity to attend a career and résumé writing workshop and meet employers and staffing agencies at a free job fair scheduled at Computer Systems Institute...

Staff salaries and building maintenance costs are among the top considerations for Downers Grove Library officials as they begin putting together a new spending plan for 2015.
Library trustees examined some early budget figures at the July 23 meeting,...

ST. CHARLES (June 26, 2014) For the second year in a row, Hubert Wang, 14, of Naperville earned the title, 2014 Camp Card Super Salesman of Boy Scouts' Three Fires Council.
As a member of Naperville's Boy Scout Troop 100, Hubert sold 440 $10...

Registration has started for North Central College's fall Community Noncredit Program. Courses on a variety of subjects are offered from early September through December and designed for children to adults.
"It's a great time to start planning...

A development dubbed "Project Panda," got the green light from a Naperville commission Wednesday despite officials being kept in the dark about what company is looking to set up shop on the city's north side.
The Naperville Planning and...

Rahadi Lohman's challenge was to replace a worn track pad button on a five-year-old Hewlett-Packard laptop.
But first he had to carefully remove a foot-long panel and safely put aside a collection of tiny screws.
"The left click button is worn away...

Beginning this fall, students enrolled in Benedictine University's Master of Science (M.S.) in Business Analytics and M.S. in Management Information Systems programs will have access to Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud-based, Web-scale...

It's a given: with budgets tighter than ever, Operation Christmas Child, based in Wheaton, needed to be creative in doing more with less. They do just that by using a gifts-in-kind organization. These organizations collect donations of new merchandise...

Sunnydale Elementary Is Stretching Budget through Gifts-in-Kind Organizations
It's a given: with budgets tighter than ever, Elgin U-46 Sunnydale Elementary School in Streamwood needed to be creative in doing more with less. They do just...

A trial is scheduled for July 7-10 in Los Angeles County probate court to rule on the removal of Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling as a trustee from the Sterling Family Trust that sold the franchise.
Shelly Sterling took over as the sole...

Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling will continue to be close to the organization as part of the terms of the team's sale to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to the Associated Press. Two sources told the AP that the $2 billion...

After four months of legal challenges and threats from Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers finally have changed hands.
The sale of the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion was legally closed Tuesday. Sterling is officially...

Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling is mounting a hurried sale of the team she and her husband have owned for 33 years and could name a prospective new owner of the NBA franchise by the end of the week, a person familiar with the situation said....

The Donald Sterling saga is not over.
The Los Angeles Clippers owner, who seemed to be giving in to the NBA's demand to relinquish ownership of the team several days ago, apparently changed his mind.
Sterling decided to pursue a $1 billion lawsuit...

Racing to sell the Clippers before being stripped of ownership by the NBA, co-owner Shelly Sterling received at least three preliminary offers for the team that could reach up to a record $2 billion, according to three people familiar with the process.
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Your laptop can do a lot more than help you write papers and check facebook. Want to see where your online time is actually being spent? Access a computer you left at home or in the dorm? Merge a group project into one document? Never lose any work...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Donald Sterling, the embattled owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, has agreed to sell the team for $2 billion and will drop his lawsuit against the National Basketball Association, his lawyer, Maxwell Blecher, said on Wednesday....

The mental state of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is becoming the central issue in the proposed sale of the team.
Sterling's wife, Shelly Sterling, and her attorneys plan to seek an emergency order from a California probate court on...

Looking for some great entertainment, unique programs, and computer classes? Check out the Orland Park Public Library's May events for adults.
Celebrate May with a Traditional Mexican Dance Fest on Tuesday, May 13 at 7 p.m. with a special...